Dreams of Space -...
Out of This World (1953)
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
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a year ago
Happy Friday the 13th (in October too). Don't worry, you have gotten really lucky today.
Out of this World was one of my favorite "discoveries" when I first started collecting these books. It is a massive 160 pages of games, jokes, riddles, and space facts. I last blogged about...
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The Political Effects of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
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What Is a Good Argument According to Aristotle?
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over a year ago
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rainy with a chance of mosquitoes
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over a year ago
Nuku Hiva, a green mountainous island in the Pacific, straight out of Jurassic Park. Just as foreign and just as wild, except instead of hungry lizards there are mosquitoes, also known as the vampires of the Marquesas.
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4 Feminist Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi
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The Story of King Tewdrig & His Role in Arthurian Legend
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Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story
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Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959)
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
a year ago
Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".
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The Hero's Ride (1963)
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3 months ago
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Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
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Absinthe: From Green Fairy to Moral Panic
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Orca, added way for instances of Orca to talk to each...
A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator II, Part II
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Browse A Fabulous Archive of England’s North-West (1885 – 1970)
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5 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche Explained
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How (& Why) Is Kaliningrad Part of Russia?
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
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Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Patterns in Humanity
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What’s the Best Time of Year to Visit the Parthenon?
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Wed, 12/27/2023 - 00:00
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Was Minoan Crete a Matriarchal Society?
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5 Feminine Beauty Ideals in Art History
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Does what goes around come around?
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A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography
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a year ago
One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story
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Classical Wisdom
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Influential Pop Artist: Who Was David Bowie?
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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8 Great Depression Foods That Defined 1930s America
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Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
a year ago
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Hundred Rabbits
tools ecosystem
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In...
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Jack the Ripper: Dark Tourism and the Gutter Press
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A Collection of...
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Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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6 Inquisition Cases From Colonial Mexico
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Teach Your Children ....
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Who Were the Most Important Women of the Bible?
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5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers
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the rock of polynesia
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Exploring Silves: The Algarve’s Medieval Capital
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How Did the Israelites Escape Egypt?
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Antonio Gramsci on Cultural Hegemony: What Is It and How Does It Work?
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How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans
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Mon, 09/09/2024 - 00:00
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How Did Japan Get Involved in World War II?
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Manhattan in 1990 – NYC Before the Clean-Up
At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some...
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At the start of the 1990s, New York City was tired and rough By the decade’s end it had lost of some of its edge – and maybe a little of its spark – but was cleaner, safer and more tourist friendly. These photograph of the city – via Watchman – show us Manhattan in … Continue...
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece
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10 Shocking Facts About King Philip’s War
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Fall of Berlin: How WWII Ended in Europe
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Cars of Britain in the 1970s
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In the 1970s, David Rostance was photographing life in the UK. Inevitably, his pictures of Birmingham, The Black Country, London and Wolverhampton included cars. He took the above picture of the Ford Cortina Mk.1 parked on the roadside on 5th February 1978. It could be seen a...
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A (probably-doomed) attempt at a bit of clarity.
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Frank Stewart’s Portraits of The American Journey – A Story of Jazz And Justice
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“Just how somebody in photographs can treat black people with dignity. That I’d never seen before” – Frank Stewart Frank Stewart (born 1949) was 14 when he took his trained his Kodak Brownie on the March on Washington for Jobs in Freedom, otherwise known as the Great March in...
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Who Is Pina Bausch?
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Eat Me! Recipes From The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook and Lewis Carroll’s Hints for Etiquette
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Eat me. Drink me. The Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts. Alice in Wonderland an Alice Thr0ugh The Looking Glass are so much about the food. Little surprise then to discover The Alice in Wonderland Cookbook: A Culinary Diversion by John Fisher, first published...
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444 Days: The Story of the Iran Hostage Crisis
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Explore the Newly-Launched Public Domain Image Archive with 10,000+ Free Historical Images
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We’ve often featured the work of the Public Domain Review here on Open Culture, and also various searchable copyright-free image databases that have arisen over the years. It makes sense that those two worlds would collide, and now they’ve done so in the form of the just-launched...
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Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece?
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Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
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What Was Little Turtle’s War?
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests?
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What Is Panpsychism?
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From Window: A Photographer’s Obsession With His Wife And Freezing Time
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“I work and photograph while hoping to stop everything. In that sense, my work may be some kind of revenge drama about living now.” – Masahisa Fukase One morning in the summer of 1973, Masahisa Fukase (25 February 1934 – 9 June 2012) photographed his wife since 1964, Yoko...
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5 Illustrated Stories by Shaun Tan That You Should Know
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Ancient Celtic Helmet Unearthed in Poland
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What Are the Conservation Challenges at Mount Rushmore?
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Women of Ancient Rome
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5 of D.H. Lawrence’s Most Notable Novels
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What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione?
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Hidden History
The French Space Cat Felicette
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France joined the Space Race in the 1950s, and one of her missions was a test flight involving the first (and so far only) cat to enter space. It did not end well for the cat. In the aftermath of the Second World War, France, under the leadership of General Charles De Gaulle, was...
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Fernando’s Story – The life And Times of A Boy Growing Up In NYC’s East Village in the 1970s
In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in...
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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First Nations of the Canadian Atlantic Provinces: A Brief History
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5 Notable Inmates of Tartarus & Their Crimes
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How Georgia O’Keeffe Went Against Gender Expectations
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The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America
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‘Church Going’ by Andrew Ziminski review
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Mon, 12/02/2024 - 10:19
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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Don't Confuse Me With Facts.
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They know what they think.
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Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked)
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What Was the Sturmabteilung?
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10 Films for Photography Enthusiasts
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What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City?
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection?
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What Are the Origins of the Vampire Myth?
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10 Lesser-Known Greek Gods & Goddesses
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Exploring Open Primaries: How They Work and Which States Use Them
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Who Are the Jotun? Giants in Norse Mythology
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
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Pasedena police called photographer Melanie Willhide to tell her the good news: they’d found her laptop and backup drive. They’d pulled over a car being driven by Adrian Rodriguez and spotted Willhide’s stolen possession on the back seat. “It’s kind of like winning the lottery;...
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Terragni’s Danteum: An Architectural Masterpiece on Paper
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The Rise & Fall of Pre-Columbian Empires & Their Cultures
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Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Added to National Register of Historic Places
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Photos of New York City Stores in 1997
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9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
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Anti-slavery laws and Abolitionist thought in pre-colonial Africa
the view from Benin, Kongo, Songhai and Ethiopia.
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When Was the First Crusade?
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6 Assassinations That Changed History
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The Fascinating Evolution of Color in Artworks: From Cave to Canvas
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Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII
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Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen?
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The Brutal Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket: Blood on the Flagstones
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Why Are There Only Four Gospels?
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What’s the Best Time to See Mount Fuji?
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Exploring Soviet Brutalism Through 9 Iconic Buildings
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
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The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire
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The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta
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In the video above, Laurie Anderson describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” as being “set in ancient Rome.” That’s a reasonable interpretation, given that it contains an emperor, senators, and orators, though Cavafy himself said that none of them are...
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5 Captivating Photographs by Steve McCurry
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Arizona
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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Who was Thorkell the Tall?
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7 Women Artists Fighting Climate Change
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Io Saturnalia!
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Curious Pictures From A French Aristocrat’s 40-Year Mission To Create 3-D Photography
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“Imagine… a photograph of a woman wearing earrings adorned with a glittering De Beers diamond. You see one earring. Walk slowly past the photograph so you are viewing it from gradually changing angles… The earring from one ear recedes from view while its twin [appears] in turn on...
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History of the Origin of Manned Flight: More than Just Planes
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5 Unusual Items in Ai Weiwei’s Installations
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The Long Debate on Assisted Dying
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Britons Caught in the French Revolution
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JamesHoare
Tue, 04/23/2024 - 09:20
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Does Nietzsche Believe in Free Will?
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What Is the Symbolism in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?
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10 Compelling Facts About Abraham Lincoln
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How Has Nan Goldin Addressed LGBTQ+ Narratives in Her Work?
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7 of the Most Historically Important Sites in Japan
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Plutarch and Pleasure
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Do Genetic Studies Refute the Etruscans’ Anatolian Origin?
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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Dreams of Space -...
Treasury for Young Readers (1961)
Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun...
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Occasionally the most unpromising book can have hidden treasure. In this case a Wernher von Braun story and some great Fred Freeman illustrations. Treasury for Young Readers was a collection of stories for children, some from Reader's Digest stories and some from books....
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Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe
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American Abstract Artist Frank Stella Dies at 87
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NY City Proposes Public Monuments Bill With a Context on Slavery
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A Collection of...
Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
2 months ago
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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London Olympics and Tony Blair’s Decision on Parthenon Marbles
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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The Road from East Germany to North Korea
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
j.hoare
Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
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‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
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A Brief History of Cartography: The Importance of Maps in Civilization
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Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna?
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Philosopher Kings
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What Is the Philosopher’s Stone?
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Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V
This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
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This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
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World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum Unveils New Galleries
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
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“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
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For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
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Three Early Basquiats to Sell at Phillips This Spring
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the USA?
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Sartre’s ‘Being and Nothingness’: An Introduction to Existentialism
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How Did M.C. Escher Influence Cinema?
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10 Facts About the Extraordinary Choreographer Pina Bausch
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
a year ago
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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Umbanda: 10 Facts About The Afrobrazilian Religion
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What Is the History of the Guitar?
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When The Music's Over ...
Turn out the lights.
10 months ago
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George Washington’s The Revolutionary War Letter on Sale
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